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Stop right there! You don't have to watch Unfrosted if you don't really want to. There is more new to streaming this May beyond Jerry Seinfeld's latest attempt at humour. Approximately two years after we heard the gloriously Black, gay and Scottish Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa would be making history as the 15th incarnation of the Doctor, we finally have his first full series. Now we've seen it, we can confirm the 31-year-old has created a version of the Doctor with a personality, sense of style and lexicon unlike any of the 14 to have come before him. And not only is Gatwa's version of the doctor Black and gay, these facets of his identity have been written into the show as inseparable aspects of his character. While Gatwa will surely have had a hand in ensuring his casting as the Doctor wasn't an exercise in tokenism, we likely have beloved showrunner Russell T Davies' return to the series to thank for this, too. We would expect nothing less from the screenwriting legend behind It's A Sin and the 2005 Dr Who revival. Longtime fans of the show will find its format fairly predictable and there is a lot of info dumping to get through early on in the series but, once that's out of the way, this version of Dr Who feels younger and more fun than ever. If you've never watched Dr Who or haven't seen it in a few years, but used to love it, Gatwa's first season makes for the perfect entry/re-entry point. The TARDIS, sonic screwdriver and inimitable theme song are back, the production value feels a lot higher overall (not the CGI so much, but that's always been part of the fun, no?) and we've got a new sidekick in Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), the excitable Northerner with a disturbing ability to refrain from asking the amount of questions a normal human being who's just discovered interdimensional time travel surely would. For fans of: Obviously any of the previous Dr Who Series, Torchwood. "People love true crime, they love small towns and they love Ireland." So declares Gilbert, the extremely hug-friendly American who's just touched down in Ireland for the first time at the beginning of this seven-part series. He was speaking about the podcast he crossed the Atlantic to make in the quaint town of Bodkin, but the same reasoning applies to Bodkin the series. The show follows the aforementioned American (played by Will Forte), a jaded Irish investigative journalist named Dove (Siobhán Cullen), her achingly eager English junior colleague Emmy (Robyn Cara), and Seán (Chris Walley), the local 20-something tasked with driving them around. Together, they're investigating the Samhain mystery that's gone unsolved in the town for decades, in which three unconnected people went missing. Dove has a hard news story she'd much rather be working on, thinks true crime is a morally bankrupt genre of storytelling that isn't real journalism and is only there because of an ultimatum her editor gave her. Gilbert can't stop going on about how green everything is and wants to see small and quaint things. Emmy worships the ground he walks on. ("They're very upbeat. It's like they're in a cult," Dove laments early on.) Their chemistry makes for very funny viewing until the unlikely trio start asking the people of Bodkin the right questions. Because, for some reason, they don't want their story told. This quirky, genuinely very well-written, brilliantly cast and incredibly moreish show is just the right amount of dark and definitely worth a watch. For fans of: Only Murders in the Building, Knives Out, The Watcher, Mare of Easttown. This delightful Toronto-based sitcom has finally landed in Australia after premiering in Canada last year to rave reviews and comparisons to the likes of Abbott Elementary and The Office. It follows the incredibly underfunded, understaffed employees of the Jameson metro public library — led by Wendy (Lyndie Greenwood), the pushover, people-pleasing boss. Bryce (Paul Braunstein), a high-key far-right white man whose favourite book is somehow Eat Pray Love is her bizarre choice for second in command. He is frequently put in his place by Jaq (Dakota Ray Hebert), the no-nonsense junior librarian who takes great pleasure in calling out his microaggressions. They are joined by Howard (Chris Sandiford), the new staffer who's been permanently transferred to Jameson against his will and thinks he's better than the place, earning him the nickname "Big Library". Together, they struggle to improve the institution they each love with the little they have, while keeping its diverse, working class (and equally hilarious) patrons' needs in mind. Shelved is the perfect show for pretty much every mood and social setting — a rare feat! Watch it with your partner, your family, your friends, watch it alone on a Friday night surrounded by takeaway. Just make sure you watch it. For fans of: Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Superstore, Abbott Elementary. The title for this one says it all. Super Rich in Korea is the latest reality show from Netflix to follow a veritable motley crew of very wealthy people who definitely knew each other before this series started filming… There's a Singaporean tycoon, an Italian luxury brand heir, a Pakistani noble, a Korean luxury brand ambassador and an Iraqi super influencer. The most many of them appear to have in common with each other is that they are loaded and live in Seoul. Tangential links didn't stop us from enjoying the likes of Bling Empire and it won't stop you from enjoying Super Rich in Korea, which is extremely bingeable, very fun and highly quotable trash. The following lines are from the first episode alone: There may only be a handful of Koreans among this show's cast members, but Super Rich in Korea makes up for that with its hosts, whose cool-kids-plus-one-clueless-uncle dynamic is everything. For fans of: Bling Empire, the Real Housewives Franchise, Single's Inferno. Between the 1960s and 1980s in Canada, governments forcibly removed First Nations children from their families, as they did in Australia. This period is now known as the "Sixties Scoop", and Little Bird is inspired by real events that took place during that time. It starts in the tranquil wheat-filled pastures of Long Pine Reserve, Saskatchewan, on a sunny summer's day in 1968. There, we meet our young protagonist Bezhig Little Bird (Darla Contois), leading a life of simple rural pleasures with her family — until her mother's worst fear is realised and Child Protection Services take Bezhig and two of her other daughters away from her. In the years that follow, Bezhig is renamed Esther Rosenblum by her middle-class, white Jewish adopted family, who live in Montreal. Our story really begins in 1985 at her law school graduation party, where Bezhig deftly navigates a near-constant stream of microaggressions from her adoptive parents' well-meaning friends, who have never really accepted her. She has everything material she could possibly want in life — but nothing she needs. The realisation prompts her to uncover the truth about her past and seek out her family in Saskatchewan. For fans of: Stolen, In My Blood It Runs, Reservation Dogs. 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Dr Who — Disney+
Bodkin — Netflix
Shelved — Binge
Super Rich in Korea — Netflix
Little Bird — Stan
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